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Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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A-i >l THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF SCOTLAND. 41 forty years in our knowledge of the physical features of our country. Itis time that the youth in all our schools should be able to gather fromtheir maps an accurate notion of the country in which they live—thatthey should see the form of its surface depicted with an approach to truth—and learn something more than that so many principal rivers flow in somany different directions. With a well-drawn and faithful orographicalmap before him the school-boy would not only have his labours lightened,but geography would become one of the most interesting of studies. Hewould see in his map a recognisable picture of a country, and not, as atpresent is too often the case, a kind of mysterious hieroglyphic designed bythe enemy for his confusion. HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. Leopold II., King of the Belgians. It is not as King of the Belgians that Leopold II. appears as the firstHonorary Member of the Scottish Geographic

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